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Sweet Potato Powder (Ipomoea batatas) plant

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Sweet Potato Powder

Ipomoea batatas

Sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) is a perennial creeper of the bindweed family, its stems trailing two to three metres over the ground, its long-stalked leaves usually heart-shaped and cut into three lobes, its pale purple or white flowers gathered in loose clusters at the shoot tips; fruit and seed are rarely seen. The part eaten is the root, which swells into a tuber coloured red, white or yellow. The plant is grown across the tropics, Vietnam among them, for tubers taken in place of rice, and the flesh is starchy, about a quarter starch, with a few per cent glucose behind its sweetness.

Origin:
Vietnam

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